Headstones and Worms...: June 2006

PLEASE READ FIRST:

Briefly: this site has run from September 2005 to June 2006, and includes sets of pictures from 32 different cemeteries/resting places.
Unfortunately I am unable to continue (explanation given in my main photo blog)
I hope to be back posting by early to mid 2007.
In the meantime please delve in to what I have published already, and if you wish to be notified when I am up and running again please leave me a contact email at:
dulwichrabbler@hotmail.com
Thank you.
In the meantime tell any interested people you know about the work I have done so far.

Welcome to my little photoblog site of cemeteries:

There's no rhyme nor reason which ones I pick: just where I happen to come across one when I have my camera.

If you want to read a little more on why please click HERE

And though I'm NOT very technical to say the least, feel free to look through this list HERE, in date order, of all the cemeteries I've covered so far. There is the start of an index on this front page, but it is very muich in the construction stage, so please click above, or just dip into the monthly archives. There really is a lot more to see.

Thank you for looking in, and if you have an interest in cemeteries comments are welcomed, & please look back for updates. Thank you. (And tell your friends in your local 'Friends of Cemetery' group as well!).

Monmartre Cemetery, Paris, France

Set off the main road, and not the easiest place to find.
You can see into it from the road that crosses above it,
which makes it so tantalising and frustrating, as you hunt for
the entrance!

The bridge

Most people, when in Paris, head for the Pere-Lachaise
Cemetery, famous for being the last resting place for
Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison & Edith Piaf among others.
But, for me, much more beautiful is the Monmartre Cemetery.
The strangest thing about it is the the road that runs above
it, but to me that adds to its appeal.
Once you get over that it is crammed full of amazing
monuments old and new. It's certainly the favourite
out of all the cemeteries I've ever visited...anywhere!

An overview

Such a strange cemetery. Sloping, hemmed in, with
a road bridge above dissecting it,as you've already
seen.. The higher part of it allows you to look
the rest of it.
Monuments galore crammed in. Breath taking.

Amazing

The individuality of the graves was breath taking.
I make no apologies for taking so many snaps.
Such openness, variety, so vidid, & not conforming at
all to how we might see what the stereotypical final
resting place should be. Oh if only there could be such
originality in English cemeteries!
If you really do love burial grounds then come back and
look at these photographs again, you are sure to have
missed something.